I consider a breastfeeding break-up to be an abrupt ending of breastfeeding, which is caused from distress. This is not the natural weaning that evolves when mother and child are mutually done.

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What happens when those hopes and dreams for breastfeeding are not met with real life ease and success. Maybe you were not able to find an IBCLC for clinical support and to cheer you forward.  Maybe there was not a helpful network of moms who walked your path.  It is HARD.  And it is most often not a one-step and done fix.  This leaves many moms without the strength to keep going and a baby without the healing or help they need to feed at the breast well.

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There are numerous reasons that a mom might quit breastfeeding, she might have a low (or perceived low) milk supply, a lack of partner and family support, a baby who has structural problems that makes latching at the breast difficult.  Or baby might have food sensitivities from mom's diet, shallow latching causing severe nipple damage - thus making feeding painful and emotional. 

Sometimes unrelated health problems in mom or baby negatively impacts the breastfeeding relationship.  These are some of the reasons moms end breastfeeding earlier than desired, for both mom and baby.  Maybe the reason you stopped is here and maybe it is something else altogether.